21-01-2013 08:28 AM | France

Crops for biofuel ‘lift global food prices’

Biofuel output from agricultural commodities has contributed to surging world food prices in the past decade, says Nestle chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe.

World food prices tracked by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation have more than doubled in the past 10 years, while the US price of maize — a raw material for ethanol — has more than tripled.
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